Model-adaptive tool necessity shows 26-54% mismatch with actual tool calls across LLMs, driven by nearly orthogonal hidden-state signals for cognition versus action.
Title resolution pending
9 Pith papers cite this work. Polarity classification is still indexing.
9
Pith papers citing it
citation-role summary
other 1
citation-polarity summary
roles
other 1polarities
unclear 1representative citing papers
Alignment policy in language models is implemented as an early-commitment routing circuit of detection gates and amplifier heads that can be localized, scaled, and directly controlled without removing the underlying capability.
Linear probes on residual-stream activations identify a shared preference vector in LLMs that tracks choices across prompts and causally steers decisions even for anti-correlated personas.
Final-token probes miss distributed unsafe evidence in jailbreaks, but a PCA-HMM model on prefill trajectories recovers many misses without naive pooling's false positives.
Harmful intent is linearly separable in LLM residual streams across 12 models and multiple architectures, reaching mean AUROC 0.982 while showing protocol-dependent directions and strong generalization to held-out harm benchmarks.
SIREN identifies safety neurons via linear probing on internal LLM layers and combines them with adaptive weighting to detect harm, outperforming prior guard models with 250x fewer parameters.
Different LLM jailbreak techniques achieve similar harmful compliance but lead to distinct behavioral side effects and mechanistic changes.
Language models refuse 75.4% of requests to evade defeated rules and do so even after recognizing reasons that undermine the rule's legitimacy.
citing papers explorer
-
Before the Last Token: Diagnosing Final-Token Safety Probe Failures
Final-token probes miss distributed unsafe evidence in jailbreaks, but a PCA-HMM model on prefill trajectories recovers many misses without naive pooling's false positives.
-
Harmful Intent as a Geometrically Recoverable Feature of LLM Residual Streams
Harmful intent is linearly separable in LLM residual streams across 12 models and multiple architectures, reaching mean AUROC 0.982 while showing protocol-dependent directions and strong generalization to held-out harm benchmarks.
- Can Aha Moments Be Fake? Towards Quantifying Decorative and True Thinking in Chain-of-Thought